I’ve always thought about the idea of “Good” malware as a solution to some of the problems out there. The idea being that you use the same techniques used to compromise systems but to change some settings to a more secure value, but using some of the subversive methods to propogate.<\/p>\n
Some of the settings that I consider a good default to change:
\n* Daily checks for software updates + Auto-Install of these updates
\n* Disable compromising features (eg: AutoRun)<\/p>\n
Things to perhaps change
\n* Disable ActiveX
\n* Enable firewall (w\/ exception handling)
\n* Nuke all AutoRun items
\n* Nuke all MSIE malware\/extensions except “safe” plugins, eg: flash, quicktime, silverlight, etc..<\/p>\n
The natural problem with this is doing good things with these bad techniques would likely get you classified as a virus\/malware, and certainly if you attempt to do some of the network-scanning activities to distribute yourself. Too bad one cannot justify such activities legally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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